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Functional Adaption of the Bone to its Mechanical Stress

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More than 100 years ago, W. Roux (1881, 1895) assumed that bone formation and resorption would be related to mechanical stresses. He pointed out, that especially pressure forces or pressure alternating with tension would stimulate ossification and that the amount of newly formed bone depended on the magnitude of stresses. Absence of stresses or stresses below a certain limit should lead to bone resorption. The same theory attributed the connective tissue to tensile stresses and cartilage to shear stresses. So everyone of the three tissues of support was linked to a special quality of stresses.

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Kummer, B. (1988). Functional Adaption of the Bone to its Mechanical Stress. In: Heuck, F.H.W., Keck, E. (eds) Fortschritte der Osteologie in Diagnostik und Therapie. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74004-6_1

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